There is a heavy presence of security operatives at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos, the proposed venue of the Yoruba nation rally by proponents of Oduduwa Republic.
Following the Thursday raid of the residence of Yoruba rights activist Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, by the Department of State Services, the activist had suspended the Lagos rally.
However, the umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, led by Second Republic Senator, Banji Akintoye, had said there was no going back, adding that “It is the duty of Police to ensure the rally is not hijacked by hoodlums”.
Reporters have gathered that men of the Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Army, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps are now present at the Park.
It was also gathered that men of the Department of State Services are among the joint security force who came to the venue with scores of patrol vans, heavy anti-riot gun trucks and Black Marias, although no protester has been seen on sight.
The Lagos State Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, was also seen with his men at the venue.
The Lagos State Police Command on Friday had embarked on a show of force in the state to warn agitators and Yoruba nation separatists against any form of rally slated to hold in the nation’s economic capital today.
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Odumosu had sent a warning signal to the organisers of the said mega rally to desist from the protest.
However, Ilana Omo Oodua has said that the group will go forward with the protests in an orderly and peaceful manner.
“Our rally scheduled to hold on Saturday will still hold without any fear or intimidation and we promise to be peaceful like we ,have always been,” the Akintoye-led body wrote in a letter to the Commissioner of Police in the state; Hakeem Odumosu; and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.”
Akintoye, Igboho and other secessionist agitators have held rallies across all the other states in the Southwest region of the country to voice their campaign for Yoruba sovereignty. There have been no reports of violence at any prior rallies.
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